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Originally Posted by Niamh.

Big Brother is a TV show where the Housemates go in knowing that they're entering a popularity contest, it isn't their actual "real life" it's a TV show. I'm sure I don't need to explain the difference between a Reality TV show and actual real life to you, you're an intelligent man.

I don't really agree with this, apart from the intelligent man compliment.
The HM's aren't actors, so their personalities are soon revealed....and it IS still real life, albeit one where they are under scrutiny, it isn't suspended when they step through those doors and become real again when they walk out.
It is rather like royal life in a way, where they put on a face for the public but are also scrutinised here - positively or negatively - when they do anything which gets us talking and voicing our opinions! It's just a forum for entertainment after all!